Modeling Environmental and Transportation Systems CE134

The overall goal is to
create an awareness of environmental & transportation dynamic systems
modeling and the interactions among people, economic forces and environmental
responses. The idea is that the
improved understanding of these system patterns (and often the unintended
emergent consequences) will help students 1) consider engineering design issues
more fully and 2) resist the urge to come to quick conclusions. In short,
developlong-term sustainable thinkers/planners.

1.To
identify feedback loops and models that commonly appear in natural systems
(e.g. exponential growth, logistic growth, overshoot) to better understand how
the underlying mechanisms of a dynamic system work (determine how a system
maintains stability or identifies mechanics by which stability is jeopardized under
a range of assumptions, conditions, and applications).